Takashi Kusumi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Takashi Kusumi plays a role.
Articles
A sixth sense: Narrative experiences of stories with twist endings Scientific Study of Literature 7:2, pp. 203–231 | Article
2017 Stories with twist endings are popular, but little research has examined how readers experience them. To begin developing such an account, we examined the affective responses that emerge during stories with twist endings. In Experiment 1, 28 Japanese participants read a story with a twist ending.… read more
The relationship between reading literary novels and predictive inference generation: A corpus-based approach employing a corpus of Japanese novels Scientific Study of Literature 4:1, pp. 46–67 | Article
2014 This study examined the relationship between reading literary novels and generating predictive inferences by analyzing a corpus of Japanese novels. Latent semantic analysis (LSA) was used to capture the statistical structure of the corpus. Then, the authors asked 74 Japanese college students to… read more